raising willow… and dexter!

I dread the start of May. The dread starts around half way through April and I usually work on distracting myself, with a measure of success and so it is gone by the end of May. Why? There are several important dates in May. It used to be a happy month, with Mother’s Day, Mum’s [...]

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…that I am hallucinating again.  Well, not so much hallucinating like an acid trip, but seeing things that aren’t there.  Like black bugs on a car number plate.  Or a back pack strap on a man.  Or right traffic arrows where there aren’t any.  I was doing this about two weeks ago.  I guess I’ll [...]

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Heavy reading at the moment, but still very interesting. My midwife lent me Pursuing the Birth Machine by Marsden Wagner and Our bodies, Our Babies by Kerreen M. Reiger. I am also finally reading Damned Whores and God’s Police by Anne Summers.

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…that you give other mothers? Doesn’t really work when you don’t have your children with you. To the mum on the bus this morning with a gorgeous little 3 year old boy – I’m not a freak, I promise!

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Willow, having just farted. “I can smell my bottom in my nose!”

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I have a 1500 word tutorial paper due tomorrow at 5pm, but I’m writing this post instead. This is like a writing exercise, a warm up, right? This afternoon we went to a get together at a local park, hosted by my midwife. It was quite cold outside, but Willow loved running around and playing [...]

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Dexter has turned 6 months old and he has cut his first tooth. He is nearly crawling, doing lots of the going backwards commando style, lots of getting up on hands and knees and rocking, but no take off yet. Willow is, as ever, Willow. I have started working for a temp agency. I’m currently [...]

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“Willow, try just sticking him down your pants, not in your knickers.” She is currently pretending to be a kangaroo and was trying to shove a teddy down her pants.

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Sometimes I’m reminded of the saying that there is very little difference between bravery and stupidity. I had one of those moments when I decided to take Willow on a train trip. She has been going home from Uni with A on the bus which is very exciting, so I figured that a train would [...]

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Willow decided to get herself a Ginger Nut biscuit from the pantry.  She tried to take a big bite into it, but found it was a bit harder than she expected.  She said “It’s not working!”

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